| 词汇 | embattled |
| 释义 | embattled adjective uk /ɪmˈbæt.əld/ us /ɪmˈbæt̬.əld/ having a lot of problems or difficulties: 危机四伏的；处境艰难的 an embattled government危机四伏的政府 embattled teachers焦头烂额的老师 Experiencing difficulties be be (caught) between a rock and a hard placeidiom be climbing the wallsidiom be for the high jumpidiom be/come up against a brick wallidiom flounder frying pan fumble fun go through a bad/difficult/rough/sticky patchidiom jungle leg on a razor edgeidiom out of the frying pan into the fireidiom pickle pressed prob rocky sticky strand embattled | American Dictionaryembattled adjective us/ɪmˈbæt̬·əld/ having a lot of problems or difficulties: The embattled leaders are trying to hold on to their positions. embattled | Business Englishembattled adjective[ before noun ] uk /ɪmˈbætld/us experiencing a lot of problems or difficulties: The company's embattled chief executive came in for more media criticism today. Examples of embattledembattled The school cases also started a process which gave embattled minority groups a new and promising defensive strategy. Faced with soil degradation, water pollution and biodiversity loss, the survey points to biotechnology as the embattled savior. The tensions inherent in the reformers' relations with the court were intensified by feelings of insecurity as an embattled minority within the nation. In these snapshots, modernity is not a spectacle to be consumed in detachment but an embattled, painfully negotiated process. Towering rooftop studios throwing up an embattled skyline. Despite the best efforts of the embattled archbishop, the doctrine it contained was - with one important exception - unremittingly conservative. Historians writing with one eye on an embattled view of the political situation might have had their reasons for wishing to share in the fabrication. Thereby the interpretation offered powerful justification for the study of women when the field was embattled. These are war cries of one side in the conflict (often embattled reactionaries or counterrevolutionaries), not objective categories. Western intellectuals in the critical social sciences feel embattled and outflanked on these two sides. As such, their contribution to politics is felt in the districts where their views are embattled. True, the enlightened observer could turn embattled participant, but then all sense of tranquility would be lost. This way of being inevitably produces certain patterns in attitude, particularly when linked to a romantic image of the embattled artist. The clubhouse also offered games, music and dance, and-a commentary on the embattled mentality of a colony determined to defend itself-physical training on virtually military lines. Without this, potential members of the wider public health workforce may respond defensively and resist alignment to public health goals in order to protect their embattled workspaces. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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